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Tech job openings rise 17% as hardware and supply chain roles outgrow software

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Open tech-company roles reached over 281,000, up 17% from a year ago, according to an X post by Orange AI (@oran_ge).

The post says growth is concentrated in physical roles: hardware engineering openings doubled and supply chain openings rose 63%. Fast-growing jobs include data center technicians, installers, and field service engineers.

In the same data, product, engineering, and design openings grew only 2%, with design down 28% and UX research down 45%. The author says AI is creating jobs mainly by building and running chips, data centers, and other hardware rather than software. The post does not provide a methodology or underlying dataset.

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    Tech job openings rise 17% as growth shifts from software to hardware roles

    AIOpen tech-company roles reached over 281,000, up 17% from a year ago, but product, engineering, and design openings grew only 2% while design fell 28% and UX research fell 45%. Hardware engineering openings doubled and supply chain rose 63%, with fast-growing jobs including data center technicians, installers, and field service engineers. The author says AI is creating jobs mainly by building and running physical infrastructure such as chips, data centers, and hardware rather than software.

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